Planning Commission forwards Falcon Field and Monument Ridge service plans; commissioners and staff discuss overlaps, mill levies and operations

At the July 17 meeting the El Paso County Planning Commission recommended approval of two complex special-district service plans that include overlapping district boundaries and different mill-levy structures.

Falcon Field: amended service-plan package County planner Carrie Parsons described an amended and restated service plan for the existing Falcon Field Metropolitan District that reduces the commercial district boundary and creates two new residential metropolitan districts. Staff summarized the financial plan: the applicants requested a maximum debt authorization of $35,000,000 and different mill-levy caps for commercial and residential areas (staff cited total mill-levies in summary materials). Parsons noted that Woodman Hills Metropolitan District had executed an overlap-consent resolution and that Woodman Hills will accept dedication and operation of water and wastewater infrastructure once it is designed…